{"id":2919,"date":"2017-08-29T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2017\/08\/29\/by-jworg-news-witnesses-at-convention-in-angola-overcome-by-toxic-fumes\/"},"modified":"2017-08-29T19:57:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T19:57:35","slug":"by-jworg-news-witnesses-at-convention-in-angola-overcome-by-toxic-fumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/by-jworg-news-witnesses-at-convention-in-angola-overcome-by-toxic-fumes\/","title":{"rendered":"By Jw.Org News Witnesses at Convention in Angola Overcome by Toxic Fumes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"p1\" style=\"margin: auto 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p1 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">On Friday morning, August\u00c2\u00a025, 2017, during a convention being held at the Viana Assembly Hall of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses in Luanda, Angola, 405 attendees were rendered unconscious when assailants released toxic gas in the main auditorium and separate restroom facilities. Fortunately, the gas was not lethal and no one was killed. The victims were taken to local hospitals and most were treated and released within a few hours. The incident is being investigated by the local authorities; three men were arrested and taken into police custody on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center; margin: auto 0px 1.25em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p1 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portaldeangola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/desmaios-1728x800_c-696x322.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"696\" height=\"322\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"p2\" style=\"margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\" class=\"p2 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">The branch office in Luanda reports that all of the victims are recovering well. It was noted that those in attendance did not panic and worked together to care for the injured. In cooperation with recommendations from the local police, the Friday afternoon session of the convention was canceled. However, the convention resumed successfully without major incident on Saturday, August\u00c2\u00a026, and Sunday, August\u00c2\u00a027. Attendance reached a peak of over 12,000, and 188 were baptized as Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses.<\/p>\n<p id=\"p3\" style=\"margin: 1.25em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent\" class=\"p3 disableActiveState jsHasHighlightListener\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none\">Media Contacts:<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none\">International: David\u00c2\u00a0A. Semonian, Office of Public Information, +1-845-524-3000<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Light', Helvetica, 'Droid Sans', Arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 14px\"><em style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none\">Angola: Todd Peckham, +244-923-166-760<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px\"><font face=\"Helvetica Light, Helvetica, Droid Sans, Arial, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif\"><em>https:\/\/www.jw.org\/en\/news\/releases\/by-region\/angola\/toxic-gas-20170829\/<\/em><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday morning, August\u00c2\u00a025, 2017, during a convention being held at the Viana Assembly Hall of Jehovah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Witnesses in Luanda, Angola, 405 attendees were rendered unconscious when assailants released toxic gas in the main auditorium&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}